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oh so sorry there vile critter parts---none of my fellow conservative/libertarian types have demonstrated an allergy to the facts, despite your hopeful delusions to the contrary. and certainly not in the way that you and your fellow comrades do to fox news and townhall and other such places.

in terms of the content of your post---ah again, so sorry---since you are so addicted to my posts and cannot help yourself in following me around and posting after them, you might remember I recently said I suspected that there wouldn't be anything new on the laptop so far as Clinton goes; that everything would be of a kind. other people said similarly. multiple people have suggested huma adebin is the likely candidate for trouble.

oh for two there comrade...

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quite speculative, but nonetheless thought provoking---vile critter parts inevitable frothing "nutsucker slobberblog" notwithstanding.

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If someone put a gun to my head and gave me the final vote to decide between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to be the next President of the United States, I’d have to give serious consideration to the bullet…

There’s plenty of speculation about what’s on Anthony Weiner’s computer that has the FBI getting a warrant. One scenario sticks out like a sore thumb to me based specifically on the fact that the FBI has had access for weeks. It’s a scenario in which FBI agents chose to use any of a number of loopholes to search Huma Abedin’s emails prior to getting a warrant…

What might they have found? It would have to be something new. They wouldn’t go through the steps they’ve gone through if it was just reiteration of previously known facts. They acknowledged she was careless. They acknowledged she was incompetent. They acknowledged there were deleted emails. They even acknowledged that national security was put at risk. If it was more of the same, we wouldn’t be talking about it right now. The issue would have been put off until after the election. For them to be going to such great lengths and risks to the reputation of the FBI (as well as Comey’s career), there has to be a real smoking gun.

To me, the only smoking gun worthy of this much attention would be an email directly or indirectly connecting Hillary to an order to purge the servers to hinder the investigation itself. If there’s an email that says, “get rid of anything that mentions Benghazi” or “delete any emails that were classified” or something in that vein, this whole endeavor by the FBI is worthwhile. Otherwise, this is nothing more than a red herring and a waste of time...

http://www.redstate.com/diary/jdrucker/2016/10/31/weinergate-bad-think-trump-might-actually-win/

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's campaign manager on Wednesday did not rule out the appointment of a prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton's past practices while serving as President Barack Obama's secretary of state, a threat he made in an election debate.

Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence are "looking to unify the country, but we haven't discussed that in recent days, and I think that it's all in due time," campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said on MSNBC.

Conway made similar comments in appearances on ABC and CNN the day after the Republican real estate developer and former reality TV host Trump stunned the world by defeating Democrat Clinton in the U.S. presidential election. His four-year term starts on Jan. 20.

Last month, Trump vowed to put Clinton in jail, attacking her for operating a private email server during her tenure as chief diplomat under Obama from 2009 to 2013, saying she had endangered national security.

Asked on CNN about the possibility of a special prosecutor, Conway said: "We didn't discuss that last night, and he did not discuss that with Hillary Clinton on the phone." Clinton called Trump to concede the race.

WATCH: "We have not discussed that at all." - @KellyannePolls on if Trump will appoint special prosecutor to pursue Clinton. #Election2016 pic.twitter.com/E6VAI00qfc
— Good Morning America (@GMA) November 9, 2016

The FBI, which had been investigating her email practices, on Sunday cleared her just two days ahead of the election and stood by its earlier finding that criminal charges were not warranted.

During his second debate with Clinton on Oct. 9, Trump said: "If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. Because there has never been so many lies, so much deception. There has never been anything like it. And we’re gonna have a special prosecutor."

Clinton, who has apologized over her email use, defended herself at the St. Louis debate: "You know it’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in this country.”

Trump shot back: "Because you’d be in jail."

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"Trump campaign manager didn't rule out appointing a special prosecutor for Hillary Clinton"

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's campaign manager on Wednesday did not rule out the appointment of a prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton's past practices while serving as President Barack Obama's secretary of state, a threat he made in an election debate.

Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence are "looking to unify the country, but we haven't discussed that in recent days, and I think that it's all in due time," campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said on MSNBC.

Conway made similar comments in appearances on ABC and CNN the day after the Republican real estate developer and former reality TV host Trump stunned the world by defeating Democrat Clinton in the U.S. presidential election. His four-year term starts on Jan. 20.

Last month, Trump vowed to put Clinton in jail, attacking her for operating a private email server during her tenure as chief diplomat under Obama from 2009 to 2013, saying she had endangered national security.

Asked on CNN about the possibility of a special prosecutor, Conway said: "We didn't discuss that last night, and he did not discuss that with Hillary Clinton on the phone." Clinton called Trump to concede the race.

WATCH: "We have not discussed that at all." - @KellyannePolls on if Trump will appoint special prosecutor to pursue Clinton. #Election2016 pic.twitter.com/E6VAI00qfc
— Good Morning America (@GMA) November 9, 2016

The FBI, which had been investigating her email practices, on Sunday cleared her just two days ahead of the election and stood by its earlier finding that criminal charges were not warranted.

During his second debate with Clinton on Oct. 9, Trump said: "If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. Because there has never been so many lies, so much deception. There has never been anything like it. And we’re gonna have a special prosecutor."

Clinton, who has apologized over her email use, defended herself at the St. Louis debate: "You know it’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in this country.”

Trump shot back: "Because you’d be in jail."

http://www.businessinsider.com/r-trump-campaign-manager-does-not-rule-out-prosecutor-for-clinton-msnbc-2016-11

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Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Breitbart editor at large Peter Schweizer, author of “Clinton Cash,” argued that the investigation into improprities regarding Bill and Hillary Clinton and their charitable organization the Clinton Foundation must go on even though Hillary Clinton had come up short in her bid to be president earlier this week.

“I think I have said and a lot of people have said from the beginning this is not about politics – this is about rule of law and whether she wins or loses, we still have to enforce the law and see if laws were broken,” Schweizer said.

He added if it isn’t properly dealt with, it could be a model for other politicians.

“The Clintons created this model of self-enrichment and if we don’t try to deal with this in some way, it’s going to be imitated by other politicians,” he said. “This is about something more than just the Clintons. It’s about self-enrichment, so I think there needs to be a thorough investigation by the FBI or by an independent counsel to look into this and determine what laws were potentially broken.

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The FBI has spent more than a year looking into the Clinton Foundation without getting beyond the starting gates. That could soon change.

Investigators at the FBI's New York office, who unsuccessfully argued for months that they should be allowed to open a full-blown investigation of the foundation, could find a more friendly audience in a Donald Trump administration Justice Department.

The President-elect railed during the closing weeks of the campaign against the relationship between foundation donors and Hillary Clinton's work in government as "corrupt."

He promised there would more investigations of the Clintons if he were elected.

Soon, top officials he appoints at the Justice Department will have the power make that happen.

And the FBI investigators may have more ammunition to make their case with stolen emails from Clinton aides released in recent weeks by WikiLeaks.

The emails showed internal fights over the foundation between Chelsea Clinton and a top aide to her father, Doug Band, who helped run the foundation. Chelsea Clinton, according to the emails, was concerned about possible conflicts of interest and problems related to Bill Clinton's paid speech-making business, dubbed "Bill Clinton Inc." The dispute prompted the foundation to conduct an internal audit of its activities. Band hit back at Chelsea Clinton, according to the emails, suggesting she used the foundation to pay for her wedding.

Rudy Giuliani, considered a contender for attorney general or other top cabinet post, according to people familiar with Trump transition planning, said Thursday that the new president will have to make a decision on what to do about his promises to hire a special prosecutor to investigate matters related to Clinton.

"It's been a tradition in our politics to put things behind us," Giuliani said on CNN's "New Day." "On the other hand, you have to look at how bad was it? Because suppose somebody comes along a year from now and is alleged to have stolen $50,000 from a charity -- and (Clinton) was never investigated for hundreds of millions."

Messages left with the Clinton Foundation seeking comment were not returned.

Career prosecutors at the Justice Department's criminal division and the public integrity section, as well as lawyers at the FBI, reviewed the requests earlier this year from FBI investigators to launch a full probe of the Clinton Foundation, according to law enforcement officials briefed on the discussions. The agents were told that they didn't have enough evidence to use more overt investigative methods, including seeking subpoenas, to open a full probe, the officials said. They were also told they could continue to gather information and revisit their requests if they found more evidence.

The genesis of the FBI efforts date, in part, to allegations published in the 2015 book "Clinton Cash" by conservative writer Peter Schweizer.

Agents were unhappy at being told they didn't have enough evidence, and that fed some of the tensions over Clinton-related matters inside the FBI in recent months between the New York field office and FBI headquarters, law enforcement officials say.

Trump repeatedly referred to the WikiLeaks emails -- in particular the issues raised by Band -- as proof that investigators should take a deeper look.

"Mr. Band called the arrangement unorthodox. The rest of us call it outright corrupt," Trump told an October campaign rally. "In fact, the Clinton Foundation even hired a law firm to find out if their pay to play scheme would jeopardize their charitable status with the IRS."

Trying to use the stolen emails released by WikiLeaks to try to build probable cause for further investigation could present legal hurdles for the FBI and the Justice Department.

At least some of the emails are labeled as "attorney-client privileged," meaning they have the legal protection of confidential communications between lawyer and client.

And then there's the fact the US government has declared that the emails were stolen by Russian intelligence in a cyber-hack of the email account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.

Earlier this year, prosecutors in Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara's office used revelations from the Panama Papers, stolen and leaked legal documents from a law firm in that country that helped the rich create offshore financial shelters, as cause to issue subpoenas to individuals and firms named in the documents. Other lawyers at Justice Department headquarters debated whether the stolen materials could be used predicates for an investigation.